Famous Quotes & Sayings

Davy Jones

I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.

Curtis Jackson

It's Fifty, not Fiddy.

David Byrne

Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it?David Byrne: I would get something to eat.

Erik Satie

When I was young, I was told: 'You'll see, when you're fifty. I am fifty and I haven't seen a thing.

Twenty-seven percent of the property owners have signed the petition, and we are waiting till the end of June as our target to get the (required) fifty percent.

You hear the statement that holding could be called on every play. I'd say it's more like fifty percent. There're three types of holding: there's the holding that could be called, the holding that should be called and the holding that actually is called.

You hear the statement that holding could be called on every play, ... I'd say it's more like fifty percent. There're three types of holding: there's the holding that could be called, the holding that should be called and the holding that actually is called.

With shrieking and squeaking / In fifty different sharps and flats.

Jules Verne

A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same.

Ibrahim Rugova

Today, our economy is divided: fifty percent is the public economy and fifty percent is the private economy that includes small companies employing from 4 to 200 workers.

Of the sons also of Adin; Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty males.

Jhumpa Lahiri

...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.

Pankaj Mishra

Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.

M. C. Escher

I've been doing this kind of work for over fifty years now, and nothing in this strange and frightening world seems more pleasant to me.

Don't know about that. I'd love to see The Senders make it to fifty years.

Martha Stewart

Fifty-seven percent of Americans are do-it-yourselfers, craftspeople, and artisans and makers.

Marie Dressler

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons

Norbert Wiener

A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes.

Kina Grannis

The first video I ever made, announcing 'Crash the Super Bowl,' I did about fifty takes and I wanted to die. It was awful.

Tom Selleck

I'm very proud of Quigley and I love playing Jesse Stone. That's not hype. We've got to do about fifty of these, but there are only five books.

James Boswell

Boswell: "Pray, Sir, do you not suppose that there are fifty women in the world, with any one of whom a man may be as happy, as with any one woman in particular?" Johnson: "Ay, Sir, fifty thousand

The men of the other Nebo, fifty and two.

And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.

Matsuo Basho

The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.

Mary Oliver

In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it.

Steve Jobs

All the work I've done in my life will be obsolete by the time I'm fifty.

Hans Zimmer

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.

Xaviera Hollander

My method is basically the same as Masters and Johnson, only they charge thousands of dollars and it's called therapy. I charge fifty dollars and it's called prostitution.

Tom Robbins

Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt.